Interviews

The People Behind KDE: Helio Chissini de Castro

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After a week of absence The People Behind KDE travels all the way to beautiful Curitiba in Brazil to have a chat with one of KDE's most active developers. This guy is active on many fronts within KDE, his latest addition is the adoption of KDE by the Brazilian government and he doesn't stop there! Read all about Connectiva's Helio Chissini de Castro!


Interview: Xandros and KDE

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The Xandros Desktop OS is known for their intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box. Their polished desktop product is based on KDE. Your humble Dot editor had the privilege to talk to Rick Berenstein, Xandros Chairman and CTO and Ming Poon,Vice President for Software Development about Xandros and their products and the relationship between


KDE Conquers Astrophysicists with Kst

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The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really special. Kst is just such a project. Started by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government agencies.


The People Behind KDE: Alexander Kellett

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This week The People Behind KDE travels back to the 'Low Lands' or Netherlands where we visit the guy who is known for his 'gruesome green shorts', wants to marry into a KDE family and describes himself as 'very weird'. Are you anxious to find out more about this colorful personality? Than read all there is to know about Alexander Kellett!


The People Behind KDE: Ariya Hidayat

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On The People Behind KDE this week an interview with an Indonesian hacker in Germany. Confused? But wait there is more! He describes himself as a bunch of 'ordinary itchy living cells', gets bored quickly, needs 'fresh blood to suck' but his friends think he's hilarious. Curious? Read more and get to know this week's star Ariya Hidayat!


Interview: Trolltech's Eirik Eng and Matthias Ettrich

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Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project
and director of software development at Trolltech, were interviewed by Philippe Fremy, KDE enthusiast.
This interview was conducted in August 2003. The interview was made
possible by Laurent Rathle, who is maintaining the KDE France
website. A French translation is available on KDE-France.


The People Behind KDE: Adriaan de Groot

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Another Dutch treat! This guy has given himself the Dutch label; a 'hardcore béta', he's focussed on writing his thesis, can't stand bad and rude behavior on IRC, amuses himself with Algebra and his most successful and recent accomplishment is contributing to the compilation of a new project, a baby girl named Mira! This week we sync up with KPilot's Adriaan de Groot!


The People Behind KDE: Wilbert Berendsen

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The People Behind KDE is staying on base this week. The guy I'm interviewing is multi-talented and full of surprises, not only is he KDE-NL's own webmaster/translator/bug-submitter but also a musician and teacher. His favorite thing is his low-racer. You think a low racer is a kind of jeans style? Guess again... ;-] Get to know the person behind KDE-NL's website, Wilbert Berendsen!


The People Behind KDE: Till Adam

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This week's TPBK [The People Behind KDE] travels to Laboe in Germany for a chat with one of KDE's more recent additions to the community.
He has been an active developer since a year and has already managed to make his mark. He's known among friends for talking too much about too many things, is not very fond of green shorts and keeps his wife on a stable release. It's Till Adam!